Reinventing the Way You Collaborate and Communicate

Experience real-time, face-to-face communication and collaboration with colleagues, prospects, and partners, even if they're in opposite hemispheres.

We live in a world of paradox. Technology has allowed us to establish business operations worldwide. However, to excel in today's fast-moving business environment, you have to interact and collaborate with co-workers, partners, and customers all over the world at a moment's notice.

At the same time, business still depends on the quality of your relationships with the people with whom you interact most often. To build and maintain these critical relationships, you often need to travel, which means reduced productivity as well as valuable time spent away from home and family.

Benefits of Cisco TelePresence

That's where Cisco TelePresence comes in. It allows for immersive, in person communication and collaboration over the network with colleagues, prospects, and partners, even if they're in opposite hemispheres. The potential scenarios:

• Corporate level: executive meetings
• Human resources: job interviews
• Customer service: troubleshooting of technically complex products and access to remote experts
• Sales: presentations and demonstrations of products and services
• Design: collaboration between teams with expert involvement as needed
• Consulting: interaction between outside vendors and clients
• Staff meetings: regularly scheduled updates of projects between personnel at remote sites

Users derive both personal and professional benefits from Cisco TelePresence. They can:

• Cut travel costs by connecting at a moment's notice with customers, partners, and co-workers
• Maximize expertise by making the right resource available at the right time in the right location
• Build trust, understanding, and relationships across distances and cultures
• Foster innovative collaboration by having stakeholders sit at one virtual table
• Speed time to market by making decisions faster and smarter
• Improve quality of life and morale by gaining leisure time
• Make the organization "greener" by using technology more effectively and traveling less

Simplifying the Concept

Despite their relatively low cost, traditional video systems remain unused because they are not reliable, offer low quality, and are difficult to schedule and use. Cisco TelePresence combines innovative technologies to deliver an easy-to-use, immersive meeting experience.

• Integration with enterprise groupware (such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes) allows users to schedule Cisco TelePresence meetings in the same way they would send a calendar invitation.
• Instead of the confusing remote-control keypads used with most television-based systems, users can initiate Cisco TelePresence meetings using a telephone keypad. Users simply select the meeting from the display to launch the call.
• Cameras are positioned for optimal coverage of the room, so participants do not need to adjust them during meetings.
• The network provides the same reliability as dial tone, making Cisco TelePresence a solution that users can depend on.
• Services in the network ensure high quality, security, and reliability for every meeting.

The result: Meetings start promptly, proceed smoothly, and aren't hampered by audiovisual difficulties. Because of improved visual communication, important contentious issues are discussed more efficiently, with less risk of misinterpretation and confusion.

Now, you can focus on the meeting instead of the technology.

Future Applications

The vision for Cisco TelePresence is to deliver meeting experiences and applications that change the way you communicate and collaboration with everyone, everywhere.